6 git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
11 'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--3way] <mbox>...
16 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
17 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
23 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
24 the committer identity of yourself.
27 Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
28 area to store extracted patches.
31 Pass `--utf8` and `--keep` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
32 gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
35 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
36 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
37 it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
41 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
42 restarting an aborted patch.
45 Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
51 When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
52 to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
53 aborts in the middle, just like 'git-applymbox' does. You can
54 recover from this in one of two ways:
56 . skip the current one by re-running the command with '--skip'
59 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, run 'git
60 diff HEAD' to extract the merge result into a patch form and
61 replacing the patch in .dotest/patch file. After doing this,
62 run `git-reset --hard HEAD` to bring the working tree to the
63 state before half-applying the patch, then re-run the command
66 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
67 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
68 run `rm -f .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
74 gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
79 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
83 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
87 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite